Thank you for very many of your sweet delicacies: Swiss rolls, Cadbury Flake, mince pie to name a few. And I’m sure this “spotted dick” of yours may be passable as a homemade dessert, but I’m wondering who told you it would be wise to put this pudding/bread/cake/raisins in a can to boil or microwave? 121 more words

So after thinking about ginger nuts for over a week (incase there is any confusion, the following image represents my line of thought) I started contemplating the many other English foods that have unappetizing names. 612 more words

If you had told me that the funniest line in Sunday’s “Downton Abbey” would be “Come and clear the spotted dick” and that three generations of Crawley women would be involved in extracurricular shenanigans, I would have expected these events to be connected somehow, but alas, Wikipedia tells us that “Spotted dick is a cylindrical pudding popular in Britain, containing dried fruit (usually currants or raisins) and commonly served with custard.” So Mrs. 2,126 more words